Board to meet in Tallahassee in March.The 2002-03 Bar budget and a bevy bevy a flock of birds. of high profile issues and reports will await AWAIT, crim. law. Seems to signify what is now understood by lying in wait, or way-laying. the Bar Board of Governors at its March 15 meeting in Tallahassee. The board is set to receive the upcoming year's fiscal figures and to approve them for publication to Bar members. The board will then consider any comments from members and any amendments at its May meeting before forwarding the budget to the Supreme Court for review. Final budget numbers were still being refined as this Bar News went to press. Preliminary figures called for a budget with $29.4 million in revenues and $28.1 million in expenditures. That's actually slightly better than projections made last year, when the Bar's annual membership fees were increased from $190 to $265. Reflecting the tight economy, the budget cuts Bar staff by three positions and has no new programs, although that could change when the budget is finally presented to the board. Aside from the budget, a number of other topics will be on the board's agenda, including: * Continuing debate about an ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a opinion to advise Bar members about advance funding issues. The board has been grappling since last year about what role, if any, lawyers should play when personal injury clients want to get loans from third parties to be repaid by expected winnings in the case. (See story in the February 15 Bar News.) * Considering a report from a special committee on multijurisdictional practices. The board is looking to make recommendations to an ABA Aba (ä`bä), city (1991 est. pop. 264,000), SE Nigeria. It is an important regional market, a road and rail hub, and a manufacturing center for cement, textiles, pharmaceuticals, processed palm oil, shoes, plastics, soap, and beer. MJP MJP Multijurisdictional Practice (law) MJP Massachusetts Justice Project MJP Modified Jacobi Polynomial MJP Madheshi Janaadhikar Forum (Nepalese Marxist political party) commission that meets the following week. (See story, page 25.) * Considering a report from a special commission studying practice issues for insurance company staff and in-house In-house In the context of general equities, keeping an activity within the firm. For example, rather than go to the marketplace and sell a security for a client to anyone, an attempt is made to find a buyer to complete the transaction with the firm. attorneys who represent policyholders. (See story, page 17.) * Reviewing the policy that prevents associates and partners of board members from applying to be on judicial nominating commissions. Members at the February meeting said that policy may not be necessary now that the board no longer directly appoints JNC JNC Joint National Committee JNC Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute JNC Judicial Nominating Commission JNC Jet Navigation Chart JNC Journal of Nuclear Cardiology JNC JNet Consultancy (Netherlands) members. Aside from those matters, the board, which is meeting a week before the scheduled end of the legislative session, will consider any last minute legislative items. The board also will appoint two lawyers for three-year terms on the Florida Bar The Florida Bar is the mandatory state bar association for the state of Florida. It is the third largest such bar association in the United States. Its duties include the regulation and discipline of attorneys. Foundation Board of Directors and one lawyer for a two-year term on the Supreme Court's Bar Admissions Committee. |
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